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CHAPTER VIII 



1872-1882 



Third Visit to Egypt, 1873— Death of Mrs. Owen, May 1873— Com- 

 panion of the Bath — Robert Lowe — Earl Russell —Fourth Visit 

 to Egypt, 1874 — George Eliot and G. H. Lewes, 1876— The 

 Emperor of Brazil, 1877— Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1878 — 

 'Specimens of my Correspondence'— Opening of the New 

 Museum, 1881 — Mr. Ruskin — Lord Tennyson. 



In January 1872 Owen received a letter from Dr. 

 Julius von Haast, announcing the discovery of 

 the remains of Aptomis owenii in the swamp 

 at Glenmark, New Zealand. This letter he com- 

 municated to the Zoological Society, January 16. 



There appeared this year also Part XIX. 

 1 On Dinornis,' containing descriptions of a new 

 genus of large wingless bird, Dromornis australis 

 (Owen), from a post-tertiary deposit in Queens- 

 land, Australia. 1 



Owen spent the August of 1872 at Braemore 

 (Mr. Fowler's). Writing to his wife, he says : — 



'August 5. — Got up at 5 a.m., and drove to 

 the head of the loch, and there we got on board a 

 screw steamer. The colour of the lake and sky 

 was like that of the Bay of Naples. Medusae 



1 Trans. Zool, Soc, viii. pt vi. 



